Exploring the Atmosphere by Remote Sensing Techniques

Description

Only satellite-based remote-sensing instruments generate the wealth of global data on the concentrations of atmospheric constituents that are necessary for long-term monitoring of the atmosphere. This set of courses and lectures sponsored by ICTP in Trieste focuses on remote sensing for atmospheric applications and inverse methods to assess atmospheric components, gases, aerosols and clouds. It addresses primarily graduate students and young researchers in the atmospheric sciences but will be useful for all those wishing to study various techniques for exploring the atmosphere by remote sensing. Contributions span topics such as on IGOS (Integrated Global Observing Strategy), electromagnetic scattering by non-spherical particles, forward-modelling requirements and the information content problem, Earth radiation, and aerosol monitoring by LIDAR. Global Measurement Networks for Atmospheric Studies....Pages 1-13 Atmospheric Observations in the Perspective of Changing Climate and Environment, and the Synergy Between Ground-Based, Airborne and Space-Based Measurements....Pages 14-49 A Review of Forward-Modeling Requirements....Pages 50-76 Electromagnetic Scattering by Nonspherical Particles....Pages 77-127 Modelling Information Content Problems of the Radiative Transfer Theory....Pages 128-153 The Earth Radiation....Pages 154-182 Analytical Inverse Methods for Aerosol Retrieval....Pages 183-224 Studying Atmospheric Aerosol by Lidar....Pages 225-241 Remote Sounding of the Stratosphere by the Occultation Method: The ORA Experiment....Pages 242-262